Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, that are scheduled to happen Jan. 5, had been introduced Dec. 9. They had been solely the second set of nominations because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — which lengthy presided over the awards — was acquired and largely changed by a brand new Golden Globes group within the wake of a Los Angeles Times exposé concerning the HFPA’s demographics and conduct.
While there may be just about no overlap between Globe voters and Oscar voters, consideration from the Globes can stir curiosity amongst Oscar voters, so Globe noms are of appreciable curiosity to Oscar watchers.
Among a few of the takeaways this yr: Netflix’s main contender, Emilia Pérez, which had discovered little traction, now has some main wind behind its sails. The Substance is wanting stronger than anticipated. And Gladiator II is wanting weaker.
Emilia Pérez Surges Back to Life
In early December’s flurry of awards bulletins, the highest critics teams on each coasts, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, in addition to the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review, nearly solely snubbed Emilia Pérez. But Netflix’s Spanish-language musical roared again to life on Dec. 8 with a sweep of the European Film Awards and the next day with a field-leading 10 Golden Globe nominations, surpassing Cabaret’s and Barbie’s 9 to set a brand new all-time document on the musical/comedy aspect.
It was extensively anticipated that the extremely uncommon movie would land eight noms — for finest musical/comedy image, director (Jacques Audiard), screenplay, non-English-language movie, authentic rating, “El Mal” within the track class, Karla Sofía Gascón within the lead actress class (who’s the primary trans performer ever nominated for an appearing Golden Globe) and Zoe Saldaña within the supporting actress class — but it surely additionally scored a second supporting actress nom, for Selena Gomez (who moreover nabbed a tv appearing nomination for Only Murders within the Building), and a second track nom, for “Mi Camino” (the track that Gomez performs within the movie).
Audiard alone is nominated for 5 awards, which is as many as any movie apart from A24’s The Brutalist (seven) and Focus’ Conclave (six): as a producer of a finest image nominee and of a finest non-English-language movie nominee, and because the director, the screenwriter and a co-writer of “El Mal.”
The Golden Globes Organization Is Not the HFPA
The robust displaying by Emilia Pérez, plus different main nominations for Sony Pictures Classics’ Brazilian movie I’m Still Here (Fernanda Torres for finest drama actress) and Janus/Sideshow’s Indian movie All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia for finest director), comes on the heels of final yr’s Globe noms, during which three of the six drama nominees had been non-English-language movies.
The Globes have all the time been voted on primarily by non-Americans. But till final yr, Globe noms had been solely decided by the HFPA, a gaggle of fewer than 100 folks primarily based in and round Los Angeles. The HFPA operated like a membership, with cliques of members usually banding collectively to push Hollywood’s greatest names (keep in mind Angelina Jolie and The Tourist?), which made the ceremony extra enjoyable for members and the telecast extra more likely to generate large rankings.
But that type of coordination appears to have markedly decreased because the HFPA was offered and its members had been both disinvited from or absorbed into the brand new Golden Globes group. Today, the Globes’ membership includes 334 journalists primarily based all through the world, and nominations are decided not solely by them but in addition by non-member critics — a lot of whom are drawn from FIPRESCI, a global federation of critics who attend most of the main movie festivals throughout the globe and whose tastes differ from these of the previous HFPA’s. (Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Penske Media Corp. and Eldridge that additionally owns The Hollywood Reporter.)
One-Third of the Directing Nominees Are Women
The Globes have a number of classes in quite a lot of areas (separating dramas and musicals/comedies), however, like each different main awards present, just one class for administrators. Therefore, it is extremely notable that they nominated two girls within the class — Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light and Coralie Fargeat for Mubi’s The Substance — over a number of males who had been extensively considered stronger bets, together with Ridley Scott for Paramount’s Gladiator II, Denis Villeneuve for Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Two, Jon M. Chu for Universal’s Wicked and RaMell Ross for Amazon/MGM’s Nickel Boys.
Oddly, whereas Fargeat’s movie additionally was nominated for finest image (musical/comedy) and he or she was nominated for screenplay, Kapadia’s movie was not nominated for image (drama) and he or she was not nominated for screenplay. All We Imagine as Light is nominated for finest non-English-language movie — a class it has largely swept in precursor awards.
The Substance writer-director Coralie Fargeat (left) and All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia.
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Seven Movies Got Much-Needed Boosts
Several movies that obtained Globe noms badly wanted them. Take, for instance, The Substance. Its five-nom displaying is a big shot of momentum for this body-horror satire of Hollywood and will properly lead voters from different awards teams to prioritize watching it.
Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown is a late launch and had solely spots on the AFI’s and NBR’s prime 10 lists to substantiate it was resonating — till the Globes nominated it for finest drama image, actor (Timothée Chalamet) and supporting actor (Edward Norton).
Briarcliff/Rich Spirit’s Donald Trump-Roy Cohn two-hander The Apprentice had been largely ignored till the Globes noms, when Sebastian Stan was nominated for finest drama actor and Jeremy Strong was nominated for finest supporting actor. (Stan additionally obtained a finest comedy actor nom for A Different Man.) Also with two noms: Roadside’s The Last Showgirl, with Pamela Anderson making the reduce for finest drama actress and Miley Cyrus’ “Beautiful That Way” touchdown an authentic track slot.
Kate Winslet snuck into the perfect drama actress as the only real nominee from Roadside’s Lee (she additionally scored a TV appearing nom for The Regime). And two movies registered just one nom, every for finest drama image: Nickel Boys, which has finished very properly with current bulletins, and Paramount’s September 5, which was largely MIA from them.
One Film Got Dinged
Paramount’s different large hopeful, Gladiator II, obtained noms just for cinematic/field workplace achievement and Denzel Washington in supporting actor — no finest drama image, no Scott for director, no Paul Mescal for actor and no rating. That’s tough.
This story appeared within the Dec. 13 problem of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click right here to subscribe.
